--- product_id: 24114523 title: "Intrusion Detection With Snort" price: "$3456.82" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.ec/products/24114523-intrusion-detection-with-snort store_origin: EC region: Ecuador --- # 100,000+ Snort installations Comprehensive practical guide Open-source IDS for SMBs Intrusion Detection With Snort **Price:** $3456.82 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🛡️ Snort: The smart shield your network deserves — affordable, adaptable, and absolutely essential. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Intrusion Detection With Snort - **How much does it cost?** $3456.82 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ec](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/24114523-intrusion-detection-with-snort) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Tailored for SMBs:** Specifically designed to empower small to medium businesses with affordable, scalable network security solutions. - • **Advanced Customization:** Learn to write and tune your own Snort rules to catch unique threats specific to your network environment. - • **Proven Network Defense:** Trusted by over 100,000 installations worldwide, Snort delivers enterprise-grade intrusion detection without the enterprise price tag. - • **Hands-On Practical Guidance:** Step-by-step instructions from installation to custom rule creation ensure you get Snort up and running fast. - • **Cost-Cutting Security Upgrade:** Replace expensive legacy IDS systems with a powerful open-source alternative that slashes maintenance costs. ## Overview Intrusion Detection With Snort is a practical, hands-on guide to deploying and managing the popular open-source Snort IDS, trusted by over 100,000 users. It demystifies complex installation and tuning processes, making advanced network security accessible to small and medium businesses. This book empowers IT professionals to replace costly legacy systems with a customizable, cost-effective solution tailored to their unique network needs. ## Description With over 100,000 installations, the Snort open-source network instrusion detection system is combined with other free tools to deliver IDS defense to medium - to small-sized companies, changing the tradition of intrusion detection being affordable only for large companies with large budgets. Until now, Snort users had to rely on the official guide available on snort.org. That guide is aimed at relatively experience snort administrators and covers thousands of rules and known exploits. The lack of usable information made using Snort a frustrating experience. The average Snort user needs to learn how to actually get their systems up-and-running. Snort Intrusion Detection provides readers with practical guidance on how to put Snort to work. Opening with a primer to intrusion detection and Snort, the book takes the reader through planning an installation to building the server and sensor, tuning the system, implementing the system and analyzing traffic, writing rules, upgrading the system, and extending Snort. Review: Awful - Welcome to the cryptic world of Snort. The author tires to explain how one should go about installing this software and getting your system up and running, but chapter 6 is full of mistakes. The info on MySQL is useless -I worked for 2 days to try and get this database running on my Red Hat box and finally had to throw in the towel. Literally 10 minutes into the install I was already downloading whitepapers and wondering why I spent money on this book. If you are an expert developer and UNIX admin with over 10 years experience, you might get something out of this text, otherwise forget it. Review: Amazing book - This is one of those "essential, have to have" books. I just got through all of the examples and finished building out a 3-tiered snort network for the company where I work as a senior security engineer. We previously had some older, expensive, ISS realsecure equipment in place, and I made the case to managment to replace the RealSecure stuff with open-source Snort. It wasn't that hard, the maintence cost for an upgrade was going to be more than my whole entire Snort-based design. My company had good experiences with apache on red hat, so it wasn't a super hard sell. Times are tough, and managment is looking for ways to cut costs. This book got me there. I was able to get the meaty technical details I needed, and couldn't find answers to online. Im a highly technical person, Im no (dummy) who gets scared of the command line. Id scoured the snort.org website, mailing lists, newsgroups, securityfocus lists, but they lacked in a lot of areas. Especially, the online articles dont talk about using snort in a corporate or enterprise-size setting. I picked up this book and I was able to put in a very highly effective tuned snort install. I also have moved on to advanced topics, like creating my own custom rules that apply only to my company's network. I use these 20 or so rules to catch traffic that is not supposed to be on my network, but might be normal somewhere else, so there is no offical snort.org rule for them. In short, this is the best book ive read in a few years, at least for a technical book. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #6,733,399 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12,519 in Computer Security & Encryption (Books) #51,173 in Computer Science (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.7 out of 5 stars 15 Reviews | ## Images ![Intrusion Detection With Snort - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41WBsjso6LL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Awful *by C***N on September 9, 2003* Welcome to the cryptic world of Snort. The author tires to explain how one should go about installing this software and getting your system up and running, but chapter 6 is full of mistakes. The info on MySQL is useless -I worked for 2 days to try and get this database running on my Red Hat box and finally had to throw in the towel. Literally 10 minutes into the install I was already downloading whitepapers and wondering why I spent money on this book. If you are an expert developer and UNIX admin with over 10 years experience, you might get something out of this text, otherwise forget it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing book *by M***N on August 5, 2003* This is one of those "essential, have to have" books. I just got through all of the examples and finished building out a 3-tiered snort network for the company where I work as a senior security engineer. We previously had some older, expensive, ISS realsecure equipment in place, and I made the case to managment to replace the RealSecure stuff with open-source Snort. It wasn't that hard, the maintence cost for an upgrade was going to be more than my whole entire Snort-based design. My company had good experiences with apache on red hat, so it wasn't a super hard sell. Times are tough, and managment is looking for ways to cut costs. This book got me there. I was able to get the meaty technical details I needed, and couldn't find answers to online. Im a highly technical person, Im no (dummy) who gets scared of the command line. Id scoured the snort.org website, mailing lists, newsgroups, securityfocus lists, but they lacked in a lot of areas. Especially, the online articles dont talk about using snort in a corporate or enterprise-size setting. I picked up this book and I was able to put in a very highly effective tuned snort install. I also have moved on to advanced topics, like creating my own custom rules that apply only to my company's network. I use these 20 or so rules to catch traffic that is not supposed to be on my network, but might be normal somewhere else, so there is no offical snort.org rule for them. In short, this is the best book ive read in a few years, at least for a technical book. ### ⭐⭐ Not for the security professional... *by T***N on August 25, 2004* This book is a bit out of date, dealing with issues from Snort 1.8 and RedHat 7.3. I think I glanced at it for about 1 hour total. Just put it on the bookshelf next to the Snort Intrusion Detection 2.0 book which was (if u ask me) a complete reference. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ec/products/24114523-intrusion-detection-with-snort](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/24114523-intrusion-detection-with-snort) --- *Product available on Desertcart Ecuador* *Store origin: EC* *Last updated: 2026-07-04*